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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9576563" data-attributes="member: 6879661">And nevertheless publically owned companies make longterm investments all the time. Many of the reasons Apple, Amazon, Tesla etc are where they are now is because the took out huge investments of their own. Every time Amazon spends megabucks to buy a company it’s a short term pain for what they hope is a long term gain. In my experience shareholders need return on investment more than infinite growth. If you get a cash injection from selling shares you expect that money to be used to grow the business to drive increased profit. If you don’t plan on growing the business then you probably won’t get the investment. That might be new product lines, logistics, technology to make you more efficient etc. improving profit doesn’t necessarily come at the cost of the customer or the employees.This idea that companies will drive profit to the point of detriment is usually a fallacy. They might get things wrong or set expectations too high but it’s unusual that companies intentionally set out to fudge things up.Most business don’t use micro transactions, subscriptions or needless products. Most just sell a product for what they think it’s value is, and try and get a bit better at that as time goes on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 9576563, member: 6879661"] And nevertheless publically owned companies make longterm investments all the time. Many of the reasons Apple, Amazon, Tesla etc are where they are now is because the took out huge investments of their own. Every time Amazon spends megabucks to buy a company it’s a short term pain for what they hope is a long term gain. In my experience shareholders need return on investment more than infinite growth. If you get a cash injection from selling shares you expect that money to be used to grow the business to drive increased profit. If you don’t plan on growing the business then you probably won’t get the investment. That might be new product lines, logistics, technology to make you more efficient etc. improving profit doesn’t necessarily come at the cost of the customer or the employees. This idea that companies will drive profit to the point of detriment is usually a fallacy. They might get things wrong or set expectations too high but it’s unusual that companies intentionally set out to fudge things up. Most business don’t use micro transactions, subscriptions or needless products. Most just sell a product for what they think it’s value is, and try and get a bit better at that as time goes on. [/QUOTE]

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